Always read the recurring cardiac threads and can tell you Simon will benefit from all encouragment on his journey to recovery. Don't know him but core fitness and good medical care go a long way, keep up the good work!

geetee1972

Can any medics comment on the nature of a heart attack in someone who is a regular cyclist and therefore likely to be pretty fit? I think it would be a useful discussion here and help raise awareness of potential heart conditions that fitness won't prevent but could help reduce the impact of.

geetee1972. If you start the thread mentioned above I've got some observations from the point of view of someone of reasonable fitness who has had a heart attack. It was a year before I was back on the bike. Retrospectively there were plenty of signs, which I would recognise now but I largely ignored these until it was too late.
Only last week one of the group I was with was behind everyone else on the first hill, very little warm up and he ended up turning back, I need to speak to him.

SIMON
no fireworks today..they have kept him under whilst they deal with a kidney complaint.physio reports improving lung situation..figures all good
To put a good spin on it, why bring him round to discomfort? They are happy he'll come round just fine and just tidying a few things up first.

I really can't believe I've just seen this post. Only picked it up from the cardiac thread.

I've been on many rides with Simon and this has been a real shock. I'm a few years older than Simon and you never know what's round the corner. Never thought about it until now but at least one of my regular riding friends is CPR trained.